All Entries Tagged With: "Abby Wambach"
USWNT: After Canada, A Golden Battle For Global Supremacy in London
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon Oh, Canada! We don’t need to remind you that Monday’s semifinal was an absolute classic, an all-timer of a match that transcended women’s sport and cemented a spot in U.S. Soccer and Olympic lore. We don’t need to remind you of how overwhelmingly familiar the narrative was either, this team trailing [...]
For USWNT, A Golden Group Stage, but It’s A Golden Finish That Counts
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon For the first fifteen minutes of the group stages, the few questions that surrounded the USWNT’s quest to defend its gold medal at the London Olympics seemed legitimate ones. Before most of the sizeable (and global) press contingent that follows the USWNT had settled into their seats at Hampden Park, the [...]
2011 Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Award Winners: Part Three
Tweet First, let us be among many, but hopefully not the last, to wish all our readers a Happy New Year. We wish you blessings, good fortune and health in 2012. We begin a comprehensive look at the Men’s U-23 Olympic Team this week, and we’re very excited about those pieces given our background as [...]
2011 Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Awards: Part Two
Tweet Part I of the 2nd Annual Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Awards featured 2011′s US Soccer disappointments, frustrations, and best hairdo. The second portion of our awards focuses on the promise of youth, goalkeepers, and the goals scored in what was a thrilling year in American soccer. Again, a list of the [...]
2nd Annual The Yanks Are Coming US Soccer Awards
Tweet Loyal Readers, It’s that time of year again. Sparing you the cliches about how it seems like we just handed these things out a few weeks ago, it is indeed time to cap a rollercoaster year for US Soccer with our website’s awards. First, a few notes about the hardware up [...]
A Dickensian Summer For US Soccer Ended Today With The Appointment of Jurgen Klinsmann, and one last plot twist: Hope.
Tweet By Neil W. Blackmon It finally ended today. Not a five year era—no—that was Thursday’s news. No—it ended. The summer that wouldn’t end. The summer that reminded us how great we can be; how fleeting success is; how far we have to go. The summer of everything ended this afternoon at what can only [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: USWNT Media Acclaim Edition- Plus- Diego McConaughey ?
Tweet By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. Hopefully, you have recovered from the USWNT drinking game I put together for the World Cup Final; I know it did the trick for me. I was dragging ass all day Monday for two reasons. First, I was hungover. The WWC Final was [...]
Voices in the TYAC Crowd: Why the US Loss to Japan May Have a Silver Lining
Tweet EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is a Special Contribution to The Yanks Are Coming from reader and US fan Cameron James Siggs, Esq. We thank him sincerely for his fine contribution. First, a confession. I’m a soccer guy, and I have been forever. Never really played past grade school, but I did letter in Girls’ [...]
Puck’s Happy Hour: Women’s World Cup Final Viewing Game and Go Go USA !!
Tweet By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. What a week it has been for soccer fans across the country. If you are one of the seven people left in the US not paying attention to the Women’s World Cup, there is still plenty of room left on the bandwagon; jump [...]
2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup: What US Women Did In Dresden, In A Word: Unforgettable
Tweet By Neil W. Blackmon Let’s just get the disclaimer right out of the way, shall we? What follows won’t do today justice. I would hope that’s obvious. Some moments in life are too sensory, too “I wish I could have been there or seen that” for the written word. In the age of youtube [...]
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